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早晚
Mandarin · pinyin zǎo wǎn
Meanings
- morning and evening
- (in reference to sth that is bound to happen) sooner or later; one of these days
- (coll.) (this, or that) point of time
- (dialect) at some time in the future
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3–3 · zao3 wan3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
zou2 maan5
Cantonese word readings for 早晚. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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noun
- morning and evening
- (colloquial) time
- (dialectal) some time in the future
adv
- sooner or later
noun
- (Hokkien) early and late season (for rice or other crops)
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